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Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.

by Frank Bures <feeb@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 13, 2008 at 08:42 AM

kujebak wrote:
> On May 12, 5:29 am, Frank Bures <f...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> kujebak wrote:
>>> http://tinyurl.com/3lwd3x
>>> I think the following passage says it all. In the context of discus-
>>> sing affordability of health insurance for a 26-year old single
>>> female:
>>> Q: "...but in this state coverage for a 26-year old non-smoker
>>>     with no pre-existing conditions starts at $96 a month".
>>> A: "It's $96 a month, but that's almost $1200 a year you're spen-
>>>     ding on health insurance, and honestly, I think it's ridiculous
>>>     that we live in a First World country, where I have to pay for
>>>     basic health care"
>> I red an article about the recent mortgage crisis in the States in the
>> Financial Post the other day.  The article dealt with situation in
Florida
>> bringing examples of people who simply walked away from their
properties as
>> opposed to people who negotiated some form of substitute payments with
>> their banks.  Then there was that family in Arizona, who simply stopped
>> making mortgage payments.  Not that they did not have money for
mortgage
>> payments.  They just felt entitled to their 3500 sqft mansion and
increase
>> mortgage payments would prohibit them from regularly eating out,
traveling,
>> throwing parties and generally having fun.  So they just stopped making
>> payments altogether and they are now waiting for the bank to foreclose
on
>> them.  They claimed they are by far not the only ones to behave that
way in
>> the neighbourhood.
>> Well, frankly I have absolutely NO sympathy for leaches like that.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Frank
>>
>> --
>>
>> <f...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 
> Frank, did you read one of my earlier posts relating
> to this subject? This is a pervasive problem in all parts
> of the US, yet no one in the mainstream media is even
> considering it as an integral part of the overall mortgage
> crisis issue, because, obviously, it cuts right into the
> meat of the consequences of nurturing entitlement mentality
> by the left-wing educators in our young people. The same
> sort of slanted  view of the realation****p between the indi-
> vidual and society that permeates the universal health care
> debate. Here is the article about the two Stockton home
> squatters:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/3vhw94

It seems to be quite an accepted behaviour down South, isn't it? :-(

Cheers
Frank

-- 

<feeb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 14 Posts in Topic:
The Myth of America's uninsured.
kujebak <kujebak@[EMAI  2008-05-11 15:32:55 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
"aw" <awolf@  2008-05-11 15:43:08 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
"Jenicek" <J  2008-05-11 20:04:41 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
Stan R <aus086@[EMAIL   2008-05-12 19:07:13 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
Frank Bures <feeb@[EMA  2008-05-12 08:29:20 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
k.obrys@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-05-13 01:21:47 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
"aw" <awolf@  2008-05-12 21:41:36 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
Frank Bures <feeb@[EMA  2008-05-13 08:46:15 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
k.obrys@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-05-13 14:33:23 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
"Jenicek" <J  2008-05-13 10:54:09 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
kujebak <kujebak@[EMAI  2008-05-12 12:27:29 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
Frank Bures <feeb@[EMA  2008-05-13 08:42:32 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
Robin <Rick5@[EMAIL PR  2008-05-12 14:21:59 
Re: The Myth of America's uninsured.
kujebak <kujebak@[EMAI  2008-05-12 18:31:56 

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